Democracy is free and fair vote, if citizens need protecting by the use of the army, what's to say they will not be forced to vote a certain way? Elections in Pakistan is about rich parties paying citizens to vote for them, or they give poor people food to vote for them, or they have to vote according to the way their nonsensical clan votes. In Pakistan their is no free nor fair elections.
So, what are you going to do about it?
Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), Ishtiaque Ahmed said the army would be deployed at polling stations in Karachi and FATA along with sensitive areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
During a news conference following the ECP meeting, Ahmed said the new delimitation of constituencies in Karachi will be carried out in accordance with the orders of the Supreme Court. The verification of voters' lists will be conducted with the assistance of the army and will take 65 days.
He said the door-to-door verification of voters in Karachi, where 8.6 million voters are presently registered, will take 65 days to complete and for this services of 18,000 government servants will be obtained.
Letters, in this connection, had been sent to the provincial election commissioner, defence secretary and corps headquarters, the Secretary CEC said.
He informed the media men that the work of the Election Commission will begin following the dissolution of the Parliament on completion of its five-year term on March 16.
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